Hope

God wants to bring hope and encouragement to everyone under the sound of my voice.

Your situation may look like it is never ending, hopeless, and will go on forever but God wants you to know that is not the case.

The antichrist spirit works to bring people in depression about their situation.

God has given everyone a measure of faith, it is this faith that God has given you that you need to use to finish your assignment.

Psalm 25: 1 - 7 {Amp}; Prayer for Protection, Guidance and Pardon. A Psalm of David.

25 To You, O Lord, I lift up my soul. 2 O my God, in You I [have unwavering] trust [and I rely on You with steadfast confidence], Do not let me be ashamed or my hope in You be disappointed; Do not let my enemies triumph over me. 3 Indeed, none of those who [expectantly] wait for You will be ashamed; Those who turn away from what is right and deal treacherously without cause will be ashamed (humiliated, embarrassed).

4 Let me know Your ways, O Lord; Teach me Your paths. 5 Guide me in Your truth and teach me, For You are the God of my salvation; For You [and only You] I wait [expectantly] all the day long. 6 Remember, O Lord, Your [tender] compassion and Your lovingkindnesses, For they have been from of old. 7 Do not remember the sins of my youth or my transgressions; According to Your lovingkindness remember me, For Your goodness’ sake, O Lord.

David had many adverse circumstances, and it would have been easy for him to give up and throw in the towel.

There are times when the situations that God has you in are prove to the devil that you are not going to leave God.

The devil likes going before God and challenging Him with us.

In the midst of our hottest trials, we can forget this.

There are times when you really have to battle thinking negative thoughts. You must always choke the life out of those thoughts and not allow them the air they need to breathe.

If you allow yourself to get down on your situation, you may never get back up.

Not because God is not able but because the enemy comes in with so much deception that he fills your atmosphere with evidence that points to the opposite of what God has said.

This is so true in all of our situations. We cannot allow ourselves to get down or become negative.

Psalm 33: 18 {Amp} Behold, the eye of the Lord is upon those who fear Him [and worship Him with awe-inspired reverence and obedience], On those who hope [confidently] in His compassion and lovingkindness,

Isaiah 26: 3 {Amp}

“You will keep in perfect and constant peace the one whose mind is steadfast [that is, committed and focused on You—in both inclination and character], Because he trusts and takes refuge in You [with hope and confident expectation].

Isaiah 40: 31 {Amp}

But those who wait for the Lord [who expect, look for, and hope in Him] Will gain new strength and renew their power; They will lift up their wings [and rise up close to God] like eagles [rising toward the sun]; They will run and not become weary, They will walk and not grow tired.

Hope brings an anointing for you to be sustained in the midst of your battle.

To have hope is more than ignoring your circumstances or pretending that they are not there.

No, hope is knowing that your situation is bleak and if you God doesn’t intervene, there is no way out… yet despite all the evidence that is not gonna work, deep down on the inside you just have a knowing that God is gonna turn this thing around.

God is not looking for us to walk around with our heads in the sand… on the contrary, He wants us to be able to be mature and look at our circumstances and say, yes, this is really bad but God is more than able to see us through.

In all things God wants us to be honest with Him. We need to understand that we have choices in everything that we do for God.

We have the choice to keep our hope in Him or we have to the choice to let that hope fade and go into despair.

Make the choice to stay in hope.

Our hope is tied to our faith in God. Just like God brags on us to the enemy; God wants us to brag on God to the enemy.

Some of the things that the Lord has empowered us with is the gift of laughter.

Laughter is a weapon that we use in Exorcisms. It drives the enemy insane.

When you laugh at the enemy that is a sure sign that your hope has remained in God.

There have been times in an exorcism where God will anoint us to laugh at the enemy inside of the person. This weakens the devil and he leaves and goes to the pit.

We are gonna be in some really intense battles and in order for us to complete them in the victory our hope must remain steadfast.

I was thinking about Sis. Theresa the other, she has faith like none other. She just believes. I remember when Gabriel had been kidnapped and we were praying and believing that he would be returned.

Theresa wrote on the back of her car, something that would keep her faith up.

She never let go of the hope that God would bring Gabriel home.

She didn’t let anything that the enemy said to them or the rest of the family, she knew that she knew that she knew that Gabriel was coming home.

All of of us have stories like that where it didn’t look like God was going to come through, but He did. He showed up with the unexpected miracle/blessing and saved the day.

Remember those victories. Keep them at the forefront of your mind.

I am here to tell you that if you don’t get this down in your spirit man, you will not make it.

The antichrist spirit is on the move and he is bringing darkness to the entire land.

Not just the United States but worldwide.

Did you know that the suicide rates and rates of depression are off the charts in this season?

The mental health professionals cannot keep up… and neither can the Church.

We have more people who are needing exorcisms to fight and battle anxiety and depression.

There are not enough ministers to meet the needs of the people.

What do these people need? They need to have their hope restored.

Maintaining your hope in God is critical to being able to finish the plan that God has for you.

Jeremiah 17: 7 {Amp}

“Blessed [with spiritual security] is the man who believes and trusts in and relies on the Lord And whose hope and confident expectation is the Lord.

Jeremiah 29: 11 {Amp}

For I know the plans and thoughts that I have for you,’ says the Lord, ‘plans for peace and well-being and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.

Lamentations 3: 24 {Amp}

“The Lord is my portion and my inheritance,” says my soul; “Therefore I have hope in Him and wait expectantly for Him.”

John 12: 46 {Amp}

I have come as Light into the world, so that everyone who believes and trusts in Me [as Savior—all those who anchor their hope in Me and rely on the truth of My message] will not continue to live in darkness.

So as you can see from these scriptures hope is a very important item in your arsenal as a Child of God.

Hope enables you to be blessed with spiritual security.

Hope is a gift that God gives those who are His Children.

Hope enables you to receive what’s rightfully yours as a Kings kid.

Hope being anchored in Christ keeps you from walking in darkness.

God does not want us to ignore what is going on, He wants to be mature and understand that he working these situation out for our good.

Acts 27: 13 – 26 {NKJV}; In the Tempest

13 When the south wind blew softly, supposing that they had obtained their desire, putting out to sea, they sailed close by Crete. 14 But not long after, a tempestuous head wind arose, called Euroclydon. 15 So when the ship was caught, and could not head into the wind, we let her drive. 16 And running under the shelter of an island called Clauda, we secured the skiff with difficulty. 17 When they had taken it on board, they used cables to undergird the ship; and fearing lest they should run aground on the Syrtis Sands, they struck sail and so were driven. 18 And because we were exceedingly tempest-tossed, the next day they lightened the ship. 19 On the third day we threw the ship’s tackle overboard with our own hands. 20 Now when neither sun nor stars appeared for many days, and no small tempest beat on us, all hope that we would be saved was finally given up.

21 But after long abstinence from food, then Paul stood in the midst of them and said, “Men, you should have listened to me, and not have sailed from Crete and incurred this disaster and loss. 22 And now I urge you to take heart, for there will be no loss of life among you, but only of the ship. 23 For there stood by me this night an angel of the God to whom I belong and whom I serve, 24 saying, ‘Do not be afraid, Paul; you must be brought before Caesar; and indeed God has granted you all those who sail with you.’ 25 Therefore take heart, men, for I believe God that it will be just as it was told me. 26 However, we must run aground on a certain island.”

The men on this ship had given up hope of being saved.

This situation is extremely bad and if had not be for the will of the Lord, they all would have died.

But here is Paul, with his hope and his belief in God, that the plan He had for his life had to come to pass.

He stood and gave them all instructions that would literally save their lives.

It was because Paul didn’t let his hope in God, no matter how bad things got.

When you look at this situation you can see there is a natural limit to hope. When the natural limit to hope ended the supernatural hope in Jesus Christ kicked and Paul was able to bring comfort to these men.

We have to recognize that God is going to take us past the natural hope we have an into the supernatural.

This is where you know that it is not by your might, nor your power, but by the Spirit of the Lord.

There is a supernatural hope inside of you and God is teaching us how to dwell in that realm.

Theresa may not have even known it at the time but all the natural hope had left that situation after weeks went by but the supernatural hope that Theresa had kept her going.

Romans 4: 16 – 25 {Amp}

16 Therefore, [inheriting] the promise depends entirely on faith [that is, confident trust in the unseen God], in order that it may be given as an act of grace [His unmerited favor and mercy], so that the promise will be [legally] guaranteed to all the descendants [of Abraham]—not only for those [Jewish believers] who keep the Law, but also for those [Gentile believers] who share the faith of Abraham, who is the [spiritual] father of us all— 17 (as it is written [in Scripture], “I have made you a father of many nations”) in the sight of Him in whom he believed, that is, God who gives life to the dead and calls into being that which does not exist. 18 In hope against hope Abraham believed that he would become a father of many nations, as he had been promised [by God]: “So [numberless] shall your descendants be.”

19 Without becoming weak in faith he considered his own body, now as good as dead [for producing children] since he was about a hundred years old, and [he considered] the deadness of Sarah’s womb. 20 But he did not doubt or waver in unbelief concerning the promise of God, but he grew strong and empowered by faith, giving glory to God, 21 being fully convinced that God had the power to do what He had promised. 22 Therefore his faith was credited to him as righteousness (right standing with God). 23 Now not for his sake alone was it written that it was credited to him, 24 but for our sake also—to whom righteousness will be credited, as those who believe in Him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead— 25 who was betrayed and crucified because of our sins, and was raised [from the dead] because of our justification [our acquittal—absolving us of all sin before God].

Here we find Abraham not honoring God with his natural hope, but honoring God with his Spiritual hope.

Because Abraham believed God, he not only received the promises for himself, but he opened the doorway for us to receive those same promises.

So, understand this it’s in our spiritual DNA to stand in this same hope as Abraham did for all of the situations that he had to endure.

So, does this understanding automatically change your situations? Nope!

But now, hopefully, have the insight to judge yourself and determine what hope you are operating in.

If you find that you are operating in the natural hope, you need to ask God the Father, to fix that.

Ask him to transform you out of the flesh realm and into the spirit realm.

Please know this, everyone is going to have moments when they don’t want to hope.

The key is to just let it be a moment. Don’t let yourself get dragged down into hopelessness.

John 11: 30 – 46 {Amp}

30 Now Jesus had not yet entered the village, but was still at the place where Martha had met Him. 31 So when the Jews who were with her in the house comforting her, saw how quickly Mary got up and left, they followed her, assuming that she was going to the tomb to weep there. 32 When Mary came [to the place] where Jesus was and saw Him, she fell at His feet, saying to Him, “Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died.” 33 When Jesus saw her sobbing, and the Jews who had come with her also sobbing, He was deeply moved in spirit [to the point of anger at the sorrow caused by death] and was troubled, 34 and said, “Where have you laid him?” They said, “Lord, come and see.” 35 Jesus wept. 36 So the Jews were saying, “See how He loved him [as a close friend]!” 37 But some of them said, “Could not this Man, who opened the blind man’s eyes, have kept this man from dying?”

38 So Jesus, again deeply moved within [to the point of anger], approached the tomb. It was a cave, and a boulder was lying against it [to cover the entrance]. 39 Jesus said, “Take away the stone.” Martha, the sister of the dead man, said to Him, “Lord, by this time there will be an offensive odor, for he has been dead four days! [It is hopeless!]” 40 Jesus said to her, “Did I not say to you that if you believe [in Me], you will see the glory of God [the expression of His excellence]?” 41 So they took away the stone. And Jesus raised His eyes [toward heaven] and said, “Father, I thank You that You have heard Me. 42 I knew that You always hear Me and listen to Me; but I have said this because of the people standing around, so that they may believe that You have sent Me [and that You have made Me Your representative].” 43 When He had said this, He shouted with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!” 44 Out came the man who had been dead, his hands and feet tightly wrapped in burial cloths (linen strips), and with a [burial] cloth wrapped around his face. Jesus said to them, “Unwrap him and release him.”

45 So then, many of the Jews who had come to [be with] Mary and who were eyewitnesses to what Jesus had done, believed in Him. 46 But some of them went back to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.

Mary & Martha had natural hope but they had not let it grow into supernatural hope.

They had a moment because their brother had died.

They believed that Jesus could raise him from the dead but this had not really connected with their spirit man.

I like here how it says twice that Jesus was deeply moved in spirit [to the point of anger at the sorrow caused by death] and was troubled,

This was a serious moment and I believe that Jesus wanted them to be mature, be hopeful, but they had let themselves slip.

Lazarus was raised from the dead but it was the hope that Jesus had in God, not Mary and Martha’s hope.

Luke 18: 1 – 8 {Amp}; Parables on Prayer

18 Now Jesus was telling the disciples a parable to make the point that at all times they ought to pray and not give up and lose heart, 2 saying, “In a certain city there was a judge who did not fear God and had no respect for man. 3 There was a [desperate] widow in that city and she kept coming to him and saying, ‘Give me justice and legal protection from my adversary.’ 4 For a time he would not; but later he said to himself, ‘Even though I do not fear God nor respect man, 5 yet because this widow continues to bother me, I will give her justice and legal protection; otherwise by continually coming she [will be an intolerable annoyance and she] will wear me out.’” 6 Then the Lord said, “Listen to what the unjust judge says! 7 And will not [our just] God defend and avenge His elect [His chosen ones] who cry out to Him day and night? Will He delay [in providing justice] on their behalf? 8 I tell you that He will defend and avenge them quickly. However, when the Son of Man comes, will He find [this kind of persistent] faith on the earth?”

Will Jesus find faith on the earth? Will He find us in the hope that we need to have to be able to create the atmosphere that He needs to flow in?

Romans 5: 2 {Amp}

Through Him we also have access by faith into this [remarkable state of] grace in which we [firmly and safely and securely] stand. Let us rejoice in our hope and the confident assurance of [experiencing and enjoying] the glory of [our great] God [the manifestation of His excellence and power].